Exophile with a hungerous lust for villains.
Currently: Dragonball, Arcane, SW Thrawn, Hellsing.
Chaotic Neutral.
Currently fully disregulated and lost in darkness and disassociatied states.
All right all right Ive settled down a bit. I dont think Ive disliked it as much as I thought, hence the future rewatch to make a "post first impressions" opinion.
...brief Arcane 2 thoughts, but probably not ones youre looking for (no spoilers in this one).
Season one is dope as Hell and Silco brainrot will very much continue on my end, regardless of my thoughts on Season 2.
Finished Arcane.
I might have to rewatch it to get a better read, but finding out it was suppose to be 5 Seasons explained why the hyper fast pace in Act II and III was endlessly giving me a headache and the constant bouts of "wait what just happened??". Instead of cramming fandom ships to service the weirder part of fandom, bit more (well, WAY more) focus should have been on the plot and smoother transition between scenes and story points. You can actually do both just fine if you do it right, but this didnt feel like it.
Everything seemed touch too spastic and rushed, fights ending abruptly (as in most of the fight and how we get to the next point isnt shown but suddenly here we are, after the fact) after barely starting is always an annoyance. I felt like the only smooth running and most fleshed out episode was the one with Echo being where he was. Even though that one was still a bit rushed but imho it was very much passable. And the best one out of the lot.
I am also not a fan whatsoever of leaving a thousand open questions. The first season and Act I made a great use of explaining everything they could. But Act II and III just kinda... went.
I wouldve loved to see this as a fully fleshed out at least a 3 season show because 2 is absolutely not enough to cram what they gotta cram in it.
Unpopular opinion im sure: but if your main reason for watching a show is to see ships and you dont care about the plot unless it involves people "getting it on", youre not a fan. Sorry. Theres loving certain pairings while loving the show, and then theres yelling at everyone who *actually* watches the show for the plot, that the whole thing is about relationships, most of which people imagine in their heads and proceed to try to rationalize as canon 🤦♀️
Sidenote though, the one pairing that actually happens in the show (not Chase and Mel and not Vi n Cait, youll know when you see it in the show) was not something I saw coming.
.... but I likes it.
Also.... not a GoTs fan here sooo.... I didnt like the ending. I just didnt. It fell in range of ".... wait, thats it...?". Usually theres some kind of positivity at the very end but no: its pretty much the case of the actual Bad wins entirely and all the death, fighting etc was for absolutely nothing. Not to mention like half the characters motivations made no sense whatsoever.
... as a side side note Im seeing now that those who have played the games are extremely unhappy with the finale. And the lore butchery, which I was not aware of...
Man i really feel like just rewatching Season 1 now just to cleanse the palate. It was just... so much better.
There is a possibility that me being underslept and drained, combined with S2s absolutely seizurific visuals non stop, has mildly triggered my hypersensitivities and therefore produced agitation, contributing to a more negative experience.
All right its time for tea and Silco brainrot. Ima just pretend S2 is some alt universe lol it being kinda Meh actually makes this easier... though I was hoping for a decent ending to incorporate into above mentioned brainrot, somehow.
Boring opinion, I know, but I gotta give it up for the Obvious Choice.
And I'm not just saying that because I haven't had a chance to talk about him yet.
Frieza runs a real estate empire that carries out genocidal acts of gentrification, purging tracts of land of their native inhabitants so he can sell their land for profit. Commenting on this choice for his ultimate villain, Akira Toriyama stated that he made this decision because real estate speculators are the worst people there are.
Fucking based.
From the moment we meet Frieza, he is a monster. Toriyama likes this Big Guy Little Guy dynamic where the Little Guy is the one you really need to watch out for. Frieza is the Littlest Guy ever.
He's so tiny. And yet you know exactly who the most dangerous person in this group is. Zero question.
By the end of this altercation, Frieza reveals one of his signature attacks, giving us our first glimpse of the kind of person and the kind of fighter he is. This is such an important moment for his character and I'm kinda mad that the anime had Dodoria do it instead.
Muri destroys the Scouters and blinds Frieza. I've talked before at length about the devastating impact that this move and the Namekian warriors' attack has on Frieza's campaign.
But once it's done, he has to face the music. He's not getting out of this alive.
In one last desperation play, Muri tells Cargo and Dende to run while blocking them with his body. And that's when it happens.
This is Frieza.
Specifically, this is Frieza's Death Beam. It's never actually given a name, but is generally referred to as Death Beam. We've seen a move like this only once before.
The Dodonpa, signature technique of Tsuru-senryu, first introduced by the assassin Taopaipai, was built for extreme lethality. This is not a technique for fighting; It's a technique for killing.
What makes Frieza's Death Beam stand out from the Dodonpa, however, is its accuracy and its speed. He threads the needle around Muri to hit Cargo before anyone even has a chance to react.
We see its accuracy and speed again six days later, when it finally catches up to the other child fleeing from him here.
The panelwork here calling attention to everyone's reactions as Frieza's ki bullet shoots past them, as his shot threads the needle between all obstacles in his path to strike his target far behind them. Dende is dead before anyone can even process that Frieza fired.
This is the difference between the two techniques. The Dodonpa is a gun. The Death Beam is a sniper rifle. Faced with the physical hurdle of bodies impeding his path, Frieza point-clicked Cargo and Dende to death.
He later executes Vegeta this same way.
Done with you.
All of this context for Frieza's sniping shot serves to set up the stunning subversion when Goku arrives to fight.
Frieza's never seen this before. Goku shouldn't even be able to see the shots coming until they've perforated his lungs. That's how Death Beam works. It's this moment that lays it out: Frieza's about to be tested like he's never been tested before.
Speaking of cool techniques, I've always been partial to this move from his Third Form.
The anime gives Frieza little ki bullets coming out of his fingers but I want to note that we never see a physical projectile when he's doing this. Frieza jams his fingers back and forth in the air while something pulverizes Piccolo.
I've always imagined he's poking the air so fast that it's hitting Piccolo with pressurized air currents. Similar to Goku's Mazoku air current punch from the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai.
But that's just me.
In any case, Frieza's got some fun moves. He's something of a hobbyist martial artist. Which is to say, Frieza has an interest in martial arts. In addition to his Death Beam, Frieza's concocted a litany of other interesting techniques.
He even invented the Kienzan, independently of Krillin.
Though he can remote operate his Kienzan so it's strictly better than Krillin's. Frieza, in his spare time, has come up with a bunch of cool moves. Too bad he has no idea how to use them.
Frieza's greatest weakness is his inexperience. He practices martial arts the way a business CEO who bought a log splitter so he can cut some wood and feel woodsy practices agriculture. Frieza has never had a proper chance to truly experience martial arts, because he was born too powerful.
The only partner who's ever even dirtied his skin was his dad.
And even that isn't much. Frieza's too strong. He wants to pursue martial arts. He wants to hone his technique. But when you win every fight by blinking too hard in the opponent's direction, what even is there to practice?
Frieza created a transformation to seal away his immeasurable ki because he was born with so much ki flowing from him that he can't even contain it. At his peak, Frieza's ki bleeds out of him. He simply can't contain it.
Goku wonders aloud why Frieza took so long, even after the fight turned against him, to go to 100%. Frieza's been all "Oh I'm only using 10% power this is my 50% you made me go to 75%" and Goku's like, "Okay. My dude. What's this about, for real?
This, incidentally, is not a great translation. What Goku's saying here is supposed to be basically, "Perhaps when you use your full power, your body can't handle it."
He is correct.
Frieza's Full Power has a lot in common with Super Saiyan 3. His theoretical maximum ability is wildly different from the reality of what he's capable of, because he bleeds ki like it's going out of style.
So, while other characters wound up earning transformations that make them more powerful, Frieza created a transformation to seal away some of his incomprehensible ki.
Then he created a couple more because even though he could now control his strength and even manipulate the amount of ki he's releasing at a time, he was still too powerful for anyone to ever compete with and needed even more ki sealed away.
Again, not a fantastic translation from the people who brought us "bottom-tier boy", as Frieza's statement here could be interpreted as saying that he gets taken by a berserker rage or something.
What he's saying is more like, "My power is so great that I can't properly contain it."
Point is, Frieza transformed to lock down his ki and seal parts of it away, so he could control the rest better. Then he kept going, locking away more and more and more of his ki. And even at his most nerfed, he's still five times more powerful than the Second Strongest Guy in the Universe.
Frieza has never in his life had the opportunity to be pushed. That's what makes Goku so enthralling to him.
Frieza plays with Goku because he's genuinely having the time of his life. This guy can fight him in his Final Form. Nobody can fight him in his Final Form. He's so happy, he straight-up forgets that he's trying to complete a genocide against Goku's entire race.
He said that five minutes ago. Gohan's hidden power freaked Frieza the fuck out. Saiyans are too strong now. They've gotten too strong. Frieza cannot permit them to keep existing because they're getting strong. Every last Saiyan, every last one, must die. Every single one. Scorched earth, no survivors.
But then he meets a Saiyan martial artist who's a technical master and pushes him more than he ever thought possible and suddenly:
He goes from "Saiyans are TOO STRONG and they all must die because they might threaten me" to "OH MY GOD I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN CAN I KEEP YOU!?"
It's this desire for a true rival, this opportunity to satisfy his amateur's curiosity about martial arts, that ultimately unravels him. Frieza has one ruthless and pragmatic option for ending this fight once it starts to be too much for him. He can technically stop the fight any time he wants.
But he can't bring himself to do it. He wants to fight. He wants to compete. Frieza's been on the outside looking in at martial arts for his entire life and even when his greatest fears are fulfilled and the Super Saiyan is in front of him, he wants to try.
So when he does attempt to pull his Lethal Ragequit, he pulls back at the last second. He can't bring himself to do it. Goku initially assesses that Frieza held back out of fear of hurting himself.
But later, as Frieza begins unlocking the final chains on his ki, Goku changes his assessment. Noting that if Frieza really held back simply out of a mistake, he could have shot the planet again at any point to finish the job. He's been letting this play out because he can't bring himself to end the greatest fight of his life that way.
This fight is still happening because Frieza wants to compete. I mean, he wants to win, of course, but he wants to win as a martial artist. He's never truly gotten to be a martial artist before.
He is not the guy winning the gold medal at the Tenkaichi Budokai. He has never been that guy. He's the guy who buys up the land the Tenkaichi Budokai is held on and then bulldozes all the people off of it. But in his heart of hearts, he wants to be that guy. That guy is so cool. Frieza wants to play too.
In a sense, by hosting the Cell Games, Cell got to live Frieza's greatest fantasy.
This is who Frieza is. He's the cruel and wicked heir to Genocide Realtors Inc., who is in love with the idea of being Tenshinhan - A desire that exists at odds with - and undermines - his pragmatic business sense, so to speak.
He is the most vile character in the history of Dragon Ball. The worst kind of person. He is also an overeager child whose wealth and privilege prevents him from ever truly enjoying his hobbies, to an extent that he'd be almost pitiable but for all the genocides.
I need you people to realize that you can be friends with people older than you. like, much older than you. like, decades older than you. you can be friends with these people. regular friends, just like anyone your age. it is possible.
I'm so tired of people complaining over and over again about how they're tired of seeing smut all the time but then there are very less reblogs on their page of any genre at all, especially the genre that they're demanding. This is such entitled behaviour, you consume and consume and do nothing to add to it, you don't share feedback, you don't comment, you don't reblog. It's insane. Second of all, I am voracious smut writer and reader and I have never had any shame in it whatsoever, however, I have so many pieces on my blog that are not entirely smut, it's smut with plot, I have pure fluff, angst and non-smut dark content as well. But guess what? Those posts get 100 notes over the course of a WEEK whereas a stupid horny choso drabble of mine that's so fucking unserious gets 6.5k+ notes, very obviously writers will have to write things that gets them engagement sadly before they can even introduce the work they really like to write. So yeah. Don't tell writers that they don't write anything beyond smut when this is how you treat them.
everyone lusting after young silco after those flashbacks dropped, if you weren’t in the trenches simping for him in season one when he was old and evil you do NOT deserve him now
I have to force myself to stay TF off tumblr till i see Act II about 16h from now.
So I did have a thought while we were all waiting that it would be damn nice to see a flashback of a young Silco, because the VA said he recorded lines for Act II ....
..DID I ACTUALLY EXPECT THAT TO ACTUALLY OCCUR?! NO!! I did NOT. Like... *expires* the brainrot is about to wreck my already derailed mental state, and Ima let it because well... sharply dressed, light eyed, pretty faced male with a voice that will soothe a raging Devil? ...
Yeah. Ill take that.
Anyday.
The fact that he actually has long hair is a bonus (former hair fetish gal here tho due to life being life, it is no longer a necessity in my men). Though i love the way he looks in season one. Older men/villains with an iron grip of control on everything around them and an air of instant intimidation and all ❣️
.... man I need sleep. Ima check in tomorrow, probably after I see Act II and derail completely into mental earthquake of tangled thoughts that usually come along with hr0ny jail residency, along with my job currently imploding because drama is insane all of a sudden and its starting to be... really really fucking bad.
.. i should also probably reach out to my doc nd kick someone ass over the phone cause its now been several months since i was suppose to get some mental help 👎
Ahhh well. Dystopian living.. just.. minus the cool asf cyber/steampunk landscapes, clothes or magic lol 🌈
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